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Born June 14, 1917 • Norway
Died August 6, 2007 (aged 90) • Princeton • New Jersey
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1950)
Subjects Of Study number theory • prime
Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematician
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
English mathematician
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev.
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
Klaus Friedrich Roth
British mathematician
Alan Baker
British mathematician
Terence Tao
Australian mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue
French mathematician
Elon Lindenstrauss
Israeli mathematician
Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Hörmander, Lars V.
Lars V. Hörmander
Swedish mathematician
Ahlfors, Lars Valerian
Lars Valerian Ahlfors
Finnish mathematician
Vladimir Drinfeld
Ukrainian-born mathematician
Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Diophantus
Greek mathematician

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